Authors:Ernest BelenguerAbstract: At the May 2015 meeting of the History-Archaeology Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the decision was taken to hold a congress on Ferdinand II in 2016 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the Catholic King, the nickname by which the monarch is known all over the world.PubDate: 2017-10-08Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Roser SalicrúAbstract: Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol (1940-2017)On the 4th of March 2017, Dr Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol left us after three and a half years of illness.PubDate: 2017-10-08Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Albert BalcellsAbstract: Our journal has reached its tenth edition and is thus coming of age as we celebrate its first decade. We would like to thank our readers for the interest they have shown, our contributors for the quality of their work, which has ensured the attention of an ever-larger readership, and our editorial board for its indispensable advice and assistance.PubDate: 2017-10-07Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Antoni RieraAbstract: The feudal conquest of Mallorca was a technically complex and economically costly undertaking. It was the outcome of joint actions among the monarchy, the nobility and the Catalan bourgeoisie and knights and infantrymen from Aragon and other regions in the western Mediterranean. Once the island had been conquered, the participants received a part of the spoils and properties directly proportional to their contribution to the forces, which resulted in three territorial partitions. Almost all the major participants divided the lands they had received in allodium between knights and peasants in fief and in emphyteusis, respectively. The Catalans were predominant among of the first settlers of Mallorca.PubDate: 2017-10-07Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Vicent BaydalAbstract: The 14th century has traditionally been considered a century of crisis, unrest and political breakdown around Europe, given the preponderance of wars, civil clashes and skirmishes with external enemies. In the Kingdom of Valencia, too, we can find these constant struggles for land and power, yet at the same time, just like all over Europe, we can also witness the gradual growth of the institutions of administration, governance and justice spearheaded by the Crown and the different political actors. Indeed, this process of political development did not preclude violence, but it did establish the foundations of a powerful institutional system which gained groundthroughout the 15th century.PubDate: 2017-10-07Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Ferran SabatéAbstract: In the 50-year period falling between two health emergencies, a cholera epidemic and the Spanish Civil War (1885-1936), Catalonia underwent a profound transformation in all aspects of life. This was expressed in an awakening and desire for modernisation and the recovery of its national personality. In the first 25 years, which dovetailed with the Modernist era, Catalan society became aware of itssituation – in the field of health, as well – and civil society and towns started testing grassroots solutions. In the second stage, with the creation of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and the influence of Noucentisme, a “regional state” began to be built which planned and initiated improvements in the health conditions all over the land, albeit with many limitations.PubDate: 2017-10-07Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Raquel LacuestaAbstract: The economy of Catalonia experienced a major surge from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, primarily because of two crucial factors: first, the industrialisation process, chiefly with the development of the textile sector, and secondly the revival of the agricultural sector, with the extensive cultivation of vineyards around the land. In both cases, non-traditional architectural typologies had to be “reinvented” or built in Catalonia: the factories that manufactured textiles or other products, industrial colonies, the wineries where wine and its spirits were crafted, and the flour mills.PubDate: 2017-10-07Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Albert BalcellsAbstract: The defeat of the military uprising on 19 July 1936 in Barcelona and Valencia unleashed the process of the collectivisation of companies, which came to be managed by committees comprised of their own workers. The anarcho-syndicalists were identified with this change, which the overwhelmed Republican authorities tried to channel. In the region studied, collectivisation was more important inindustry than in agriculture. The critical anti-fascist testimonials of the phenomenon allow us to temper the versions of the propagandists, who blamed all the flaws in the process on its adversaries. Decentralised worker management lost ground after the test of strength in Barcelona in May 1937.PubDate: 2017-10-07Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)

Authors:Jordi CasassasAbstract: This article considers the need, when studying nationalism, to combine the analysis of the particular case with the status of the issue in the analysis of the generic nation/nationalism which brings us to the historical time when the study is being conducted. What stands out currently is the importance of the historiographic renovation spearheaded by a group of historians, sociologists, anthropologistsand political scientists in the first half of the 1980s. And because of his popularity, E. Hobsbawm’s contribution particularly stands out. In a complementary fashion, it also advances a hypothesis on the reasons behind this historiographic renovation. The last part of the article focuses on determining the effects this renovation had on analyses of Catalanism.PubDate: 2017-10-07Issue No:Vol. 0 (2017)